Next Steps

[David Keaton <dmk@dmk.com>]

     The Special Majority Vote for Committee Specification has closed, 
and we will receive official notification of Committee Specification 
status soon.

     Once the official date of the Committee Specification has been 
recorded, it will be time to begin submitting Statements of Use.  If you 
need any assistance with this, please let me know.  I will collect the 
Statements of Use and enter them as TC documents for use in our request 
for Candidate OASIS Standard status.

     I would like to ask for a volunteer to submit a brief paragraph 
for each of the following.

1.  A clear English-language summary of the specification that will help 
OASIS members outside the TC understand what they will be reviewing at 
the Candidate OASIS Standard stage.

2.  The relationship of this specification to similar work of other 
OASIS TCs or other standards developing organizations.

     Once the Statements of Use and the descriptive paragraphs have 
been collected, I will issue a 7-day e-ballot to approve the following.

1.  Certification by the TC that all schema and XML instances are 
well-formed and that expressions are valid.

2.  Approval of the descriptive paragraphs.

3.  Approval of the Statements of Use.

4.  Request for Special Majority Vote to proceed to Candidate OASIS 
Standard.

     We're on our way!

					David